Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror 25 Reviewshttp://books.google.com/books/about/Good_Muslim_Bad_Muslim.html?id=kVfFzeaCimoC Pantheon Books, 2004 - Cold War - 304 pages "Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket. |
